A UKeiG Course: Information Law for Information Professionals:
What you NEED to know about
Copyright, Data Protection, Freedom of Information and Accessibility and Disability Discrimination Laws
to be held at
CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE Tuesday, 19th February 2008, 9.30-16.30
Course Outline
In particular, four key legal areas currently affect the work of many information professionals in the digital environment – copyright, data protection, freedom of information, and disability discrimination and accessibility. This one-day introductory course will chart a path through the complexities of these subjects. Each area will be succinctly overviewed and the key aspects of the legal regime and requirements in each area will be outlined and explained. Delegates will be taken step-by-step through the fundamentals of each area. An understanding of each topic will be illuminated by real-life examples or scenarios explaining the application of the laws in a wide range of contexts. The day will also highlight the inter-relationships between each of these important areas of information law. There will be opportunities for discussion and exchanges of experience. The day will close with a presentation on how to manage actively legal compliance in these areas in an institutional or organisational context.
The sessions will include:
* Copyright: everything the information professional needs to know
* Copyright in action: scenarios and key issues in copyright in an electronic context
* Data protection: overview of the data protection regime for information professionals
* Data protection in action: specific issues in information, publishing and library contexts
* Freedom of information: outline of UK freedom of information laws (including Scotland)
* Freedom of information in action: compliance and making it work for information professionals
* Accessibility and disability discrimination law: overview of the legal regime
* Accessibility in action: key issues in provision of digital information and services to users
* Managing compliance with information laws in your organisation
Within each area a wide range of topics/problems will be used to shed light on the problems faced by information professionals, or how the laws can be used by them in appropriate contexts.
The course will be led by presentations but will include real-life problems and scenarios for discussion, and plenty of opportunity for questions and answers.
Who Should Attend
The course is relevant to anyone involved with the legal issues relating to the creation, storage, accessing, publishing or use of information. Anyone working with information, especially digital information, or who needs a sound grasp of the foundations of each of these areas will benefit from the Course. Those with responsibility for managing one or more of these areas in their organisation and who need a sound grounding in each of them will also benefit.
Course Presenter
Laurence Bebbington is Law Librarian and Information Services Copyright Officer at the University of Nottingham. He is a former Vice Chair of UKOLUG. He has presented papers or taken seminars on various aspects of legal issues in information work. He has published various articles and papers and is a joint editor (with C.J. Armstrong) and contributor to the 2nd edition of Staying Legal: A Guide To Issues And Practice Affecting the Library, Information and Publishing Sectors, FACET (2003).